Documents from this file include mostly correspondence with Evelyn Shaw (BSR Honorary General Secretary), the earliest letters concerning the re-organisation of the BSR and the dismissal of Thomas Ashby and Eugénie Strong as well as the Executive Committee and Faculty's views on this matter; correspondence about financial matters; letter documenting the donation by William Russell of £ 3,000 to form the nucleus of the Library Endowement Fund; thank-you letter on behalf of the Executive Committee expressing gratitude for the magnificent donation (the donor intended to remain anonymous); correspondence about several grants, including the Italian Topographical Fund and its management according to Mr Woodward's indications; comments about a Faculty's report stating the appointment of Hugh Last as Faculty member; correspondence concerning the institutional subscription of several colleges (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; St John College, Oxford); correspondence concerning the use of funds to purchase books for the Fine Arts scholars; correspondence with Stanley Quick (Assistant to Evelyn Shaw); letter from E.J. Forsdyke about the setting up of a studentship as per Hugh Last's suggestion (last is mentioned here as the Chairman of the Craven Committee in Oxford); memorandum by W. Russell about the management of the Library's funds and the London Administration's financial contribution (Executive Committee), November 1927 and Evelyn Shaw's reply; correspondence relating to the Library Endowment Fund and Income Tax Claim; postcard sent by W. Russell to E. Shaw; correspondence about the Warren bequest books; letter by W. Russell mentioning a sum of money received for the Medieval Scholarship Fund; summary of Faculty's Income and Expenditure scheme and proposal to establish a second scholarship (Medieval Studies), 1930; list of subscribers to the Library since July 1925; extract from the Executive Committee Report on the death of William Russell, April 1934; extract from Governance minutes reporting W. Russell's death; obituary (The Times, 11 December 1931; 14 December 1931).